From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T21:22:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie tearing hair out

page77.office@googlemail.com wrote:
> dsymonds@gmail.com wrote:
>> page77.off...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>>> So to my problem.  I have created a 'helloworld' web page and
>>> called it 'testcgi.rb'. I have put it in various directories, but
>>> whenever I try to execute it as a web page on my localhost - it
>>> just prints out the contents.  I look at httpd.conf and tremble,
>>> although I am not sure which is the right one.  I have installed
>>> 'instantrails' under c:\rubyrail
>>>
>>> Contents of testcgi.rb
>>
>> Chances are it just needs to be called "testcgi.cgi" (i.e. using the
>> .cgi extension). This would be an Apache setup aspect.
>>
>> The code is fine, by the way, though standards-wise you'd be better
>> using "\r\n\r\n" to end the HTTP headers, not just "\n\n".
>>
>>
>> Dave.
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I have had it called testcgi.cgi and I just get
> it printed out, not executed.

Once when I dealt with CGI scripts (a while ago) you had to create a
directory called "cgi-bin" in the root of the web application and place
your scripts there (with executable permissions).  That was all that was
necessary to make them executable as CGI scripts.

Kind regards

    robert